Baling-press.



No. 665,284.4 Patented 1an. I, |90. L. TRABUE.

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ATENT LUTHER 'IRABUE, OF GIRARD, ILLINOIS.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,284, dated January 1, 1901.

Application iiled July 20,1900. Serial No. 24,313. (No model.)

LLL whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LUTHER TRABUE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Girard, in the county of Macoupin and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ealing-Presses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in machines for baling hay, straw, excelsior, and the like; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is a side View of my improved machine. Fig. II is a like view showing the parts in a different position. Fig. III is a detail top or plan view. Fig. IV is a detail longitudinal section. Fig. V is a detail perspective view showing part of the division-board pocket and t-he strip that supports the division-board. Fig. VI is a detail perspective view showing part of feeder-arm and the guide through-which it passes. Fig. VII is an enlarged'detail section taken on line VII VII, Fig. III.

Referring tothe drawings, 1 represents the body of the press, which may be of any desired form or construction.

2 is the traverser, 3 the pitman of the traverser, and 4 the power-im parting mechanism. The traverser has a rearwardly-extending framework 5.

6 represents a feeder-arm carrying a head 7 for forcing the material into the balingchamber.

My invention relates in part to the feed mechanism of the machine,which is constructed as follows: The arm 6 of the feeder is pivoted by a bolt 8 to the pitman 3 of the, traverser. The arm is bent, as shown at 9, and its bent portion passes through a guide consisting of links 10, pivotally supported on the frame of the machine, preferably by means of a rod or the shaft 11, supported in journalboxes 12, bolted to the frame-timbers 13. On the rod 11, between the links 10, is a roller 14., and between the other ends of the links is arranged a roller l5. The guide thus made is free to swing on the rod 11, and as the traverser advances and recedes the feeder will be moved back and forth, as will be readily understood, forcing the material into the baling-chamber at the end of each rearward stroke of the traverser.

Another part of my invention relates to the manner of dropping the division-boards into the press.

16 is a pocket into which the division-board can be slipped from one end of the pocket. This pocket is secured to a cross-piece 17, supported by and adapted to slide upon the top of the press and held in position by cleats 18.

19 represents arms pivotally connected to the ends of the cross-piece 17 and the forward ends of which are provided with hooks 20, that,when dropped, are adapted to be engaged by cleats 21, secured to the frame 5 of the traverser.

22 represents the bottom of the pocket 16,

is journaled in the cross-piece 17, and which has cranks 24, provided with rollers 25, that Itravel on cleats 26, secured 'to the timbers 13.

l27 represents a rock-shaft journaled to the frame of the press, and each end of which is provided with a bent portion forming a handle 2S. Each end of the crank-shaft carries a elevis 27, consisting of links and rollers constructed the same as the clevis shown in Fig. VI, and through these clevises the arms 19 extend. When the division-board is to be dropped, the crank-shaft is turned to drop the outer ends of the arms, so that the hooks 2O will lie in the path of the cleats 21, and the next backward movement of the traverser will bring the division-board over the feedopening of the press. When the pocket reaches the feed-opening, the bottom 22 falls to the position shown in Fig. IV, allowing the division-board to drop into the press, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. IV. This movement of the bottom 22 is effected by the rollers 25 reaching the ends of the cleats 26, at which point I prefer to provide rollers 29, over which the rollers 25 drop, as shown in Fig. II. The arms 19 are dropped by turning the shaft 27, for which purpose the operator takes hold of one of the handles 28. The shaft 27 is held to either position in which it is placed by means of springs 30. When th'e traverser advances again, the pocket 16 is drawn toward IOO the delivery end of the press by means of 1;'

weights 31, attached to cords 32, that pass over the rollers 29 and around rollers 33, journaled to the frame of the press, the ends of the cords being connected to the hinged ends of the arms 19, as shown at 34, Fig. I. When the board has been dropped into the press, the shaft 27 is turned back to its normal position, (by projections 5 on the traverser coming against it,) so as to raise the hooks 20 out of the path of the cleats 2l, as shown in Fig. I, so that the pocket 16 will not be drawn forward again by the next rearward movement of the traverser, and the pocket is not thus drawn forward again until another division-board is t-o be inserted, when the shaft 27 will be again rocked to drop the hook 2O into the path of the cleats 21. With this arrangement the division-board pocket is located away from the feed-opening of the press While the bale is being formed, and is thus out of the way, and when the division-board is to be inserted the pocket is moved to position by the traverser of the press.

I claim as my inventionl. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser provided with a pitman, a feeder havinga bentarm pivotally connected to said pitman, and a guide through which the bent portion of the arm passes as the feeder is moved, substantially as set forth.

2. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser provided with a pitman, a feeder having a bent arm pivotally connected to said pitman, and a pivoted guide through which the bent portion of the arm passes as the feeder is moved, substantially as set forth.

3. In a balingpress, the combination of a traverser provided with a pitman, a feeder having a bent arm connected to said pitinan, and a guide through which said arm passes, said guide consisting of links pivoted to the frame of the press and provided With rollers against which the arm of the feeder bears, as the feeder is operated, substantially as set forth.

4. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser, guide-cleats 18, a division-board pocket lnovably held to the top of the press by said guide-cleats so that the pocket will be drawn forward when the division-board is to be dropped into the press, substantially as set forth.

5. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser, a division-board pocket movably held to the top of the press and having a hinged bottom, arms provided with hooks and pivotedly connected to said pocket. means on the traverser for engaging said hooks and means for dropping the bottom of the pocket when the pocket is moved to a position over the feed-opening 0f the press, substantially as set forth.

6. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser, a pocket, a cross-piece to which the pocket is secured and which is adapted to slide on top of the press, arms pivoted to said cross-piece and provided with hooks adapted to be engaged by cleats secured to the traverser, a hinged strip forming a bottom to said pocket,l a shaft provided with cranks having friction-rollers and to which said strip is secured, cleats upon which said friction-rollers ride and means for retracting said pocket after it has been drawn forward by the traverser, subst-antially as set forth.

7. In a baling-press, the combination of a traverser, a division-boardpocket, a crosspiece to which said pocket is secured, and which is adapted to slide on top of the press, arms provided with hooks and pivotedly connected to said cross-piece, cleats secured to said traverser and adapted to engage said hooks, a crank-shaft for holding said hooks out of the path of said cleats and for dropping the hooks into the path of said cleats, a strip forming the bottom of said pocket, a shaft to which said strip is secured and which is provided with cranks carrying rollers that bear upon cleats secured to the frame of the press, and means for retracting said pocket after it has been drawn forward by the traverser, consisting of weights connected to said arms by means of cords passing over rollers, substantially as set forth.

LUTHER TRABUE. In presence of- GEORGE WOLFE, S. O. SMITH. 

